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Cool Stuff. I've come to the conclusion it's a nice extra car, but beyond that, it becomes more a waste of time. I've done a trip from SD to Ventura and planned out each and every stop and where to charge and so on. But what would take maybe 3-4 hours Max, pretty much becomes a 2 day...

I wonder how fast they will actually be able to deliver. I know a few people who are like #600 on the Model X order list and have been waiting for a couple years and they are nowhere near getting even a date of expected delivery yet. And like i said, if Tesla were shipping out that many Model...

The tax credit only works for the first 200K sold. So if the Model 3 is as good as advertised and is delivered, there won't be a tax credit for most new buyers.

Musk and Tesla are what Apple used to be not that long ago. People wait in line, maybe even pay more for something, just because. It's almost like a cult following now. The Model S was and is a great car, great design. Changed and disrupted certain aspects of the industry. Not sure about...

I dont' even know if Tesla will be the leader in the affordable EV market. They should, but they are starting to show their own cracks in actually producing and building enough cars. Maybe once the gigafactory comes out, but they have a hard time making a small amount of cars (Model S and a...

Ford is pretty much "all in" on automated cars and connected cars, they don't seem to care one way or another for the FFE or EVs. If the market ever picks up, they might be all for it, but right now, they opened a new R&D lab in Silicon Valley for mostly non EV stuff.

I'm luck that I rarely need to use the heater, but it would be nice to have a clear windshield now and again. Rolling down my windows doesn't really work. And a 5-10 minutes to fully charge a 200 mile vehicle would be great. But what should we expect as Phones and Laptops barely have this...

I didn't really like the i3 or the i8. It's different, but I like never having to go to the gas station. I tested the Volt and just found it to be blah. I am interested in their Spark or whatever though. I did put a down payment on a Model S, but changed my mind plus some cryptocurrency coins...

If it were 200+ miles, it would be great. 100 miles to me just means I'll probably get 75-80. I make frequent trips up to Irvine,CA and it's about a 65 mile trip one way. I know a few charging stations at malls and grocery stores, plus the office I visit has a few charging stations. And...

In California, unless you drive a Tesla, most of the charging stations aren't free anymore. It is rare to find one that doesn't charge and some of them have jacked up the cost to like $1-2 per hour. I used one station in the past and it cost me like $6 to charge for a little over 3 hours. Or...

I've called a tow truck a few times. One time 0 really meant 0 because as soon as it hit 0, that was it. I did have enough power to get it to the side of the road, but that was it. Another time I was lucky enough to be close to home, so a friend and I just pushed it about a mile...

I think most car companies have given up on these internal apps and turned to Android Auto or Apple Auto and any developers for those systems. They just have to support what exists for a bit, I mean ford used to partner with Microsoft, but that isn't the case anymore, so it's hard to upgrade...

They have something like that called MyEV by MyCarma. It was an indiegogo project.

The range is the biggest problem unless you pretty much don't do much or go anywhere. Great if you live very close to work, not so great if you get 70 miles and have only like 10 left when you get home from work. And since the FFE doesn't offer fast charging, you're pretty much screwed from...

I do understand the estimate, miles, and energy are not one in the same, but the reality is I can measure how far I can go in miles and going back and forth to my kids school is about 3 miles roundtrip, if that. And to me how far I can go is the best way to measure anything as I've spent the...

It also depends on where you live in SD. I get about 70 miles on average, much less other times, but there are tons of small inclines in SD that kills your range. I've had discussions with others in the area who drive Teslas, Leafs, i3s and so on and it's the same scenario. If you have any...

Sounds like you work for ford. A company who purposely doesn't want to sell a car and never actually tries to sell it, is a failure. It's called business. Just because you and a few thousand people like it, doesn't make it a success. And so if many executives at Ford never wanted to sell...

I think a 200+ mile EV will need to be made otherwise it just looks dumb. Yeah it's a small market, but if Tesla makes a decent 200+ Mile EV and GM does, people will buy it. The Leaf is a pretty popular car for an EV. And in California you see more Leafs than Prius's. So there is a...

I don't think it's that hard to understand. Ford does not see much revenue in the car, doesn't care to sell it, doesn't care to improve it, and doesn't care to make them. It's that simple. The ICE Focus was one of the more popular cars a few years back, might still be, so it shouldn't have...

It might be years from now before even a prototype or they might just buy Tesla. As far as poaching, this isn't really news. Tesla was poaching or getting many of the young grads for the past few years. Google and Apple and Facebook and others poach employees or made agreements to not poach...